How to calculate fake VKontakte accounts

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Fake accounts have long filled most social networks, but most often we come across fakes, of course, on the VKontakte social network. Since landing pages are often created in a hurry, they are fairly easy to figure out. In our article today, we'll show you how to do this.

Determine the age of the page

Each VKontakte page after registration is assigned a serial number - ID. With the help of it, we can determine how "old" the page of the user, in which we suspect a fake, is.

In order to find out the ID, go to the page we need and look at the address bar of the browser:

If we see such a picture, then we should act differently:

Go to the user's friend list, and then you will see his ID in the address bar:

As a result, we got an ID equal to 80 491 907.

Once you know the page ID, you can roughly determine how long ago it was created. For example, if the page ID is about 100 000 000, then this indicates that it was created in 2010, and if about 180 000 000, then in 2012. Well, if the ID approaches, for example, to 280 933 146, then this indicates that the page was created relatively recently.

So, if you have determined the approximate date of registration of the page and understand that it was created not so long ago - a couple of weeks, or maybe even a few days ago, then you should not trust such a user.

You should also not believe in various bikes, with the help of which a person who pretends to be someone who is not, will try to get out. Here are the most popular ones:

• « My old page was blocked, I created a new one”. Access to your page is restored very quickly using a mobile phone.
• « I created the second page on purpose. " Ask the user to send you a message from the first page.

See if the user is active on their page

To create the appearance of a "live" page, fakes often upload many avatars and photos to the album, write a bunch of posts on the wall and do hundreds of reposts. But pay attention not to the quantity, but to date of placement … If photos and posts on the wall are posted on the same day or in any other short period of time, then this is very suspicious. Real user pages get filled gradually, not in one day … Well, if the page is completely blank, then this is doubly suspicious.

We check the authenticity of photos

Fakes, as a rule, steal photos from real users or "borrow" photos from the same fake accounts. From constant overfills, the quality of photos deteriorates significantly - they are pixelated.

An example of especially popular photos that are subject to frequent refills:

You can check the authenticity of photos by using Google Image Search. To do this, select one of the user's photos and save this photo to our computer.

After that, we go to the Google image search, upload the photo and get the result: this photo is often found on the Internet, which means that this is a fake user photo.

A fake can be quite tricky and put on the ava a photo that is not so popular. So check a few of his photos for more reliable results.

Pay attention to the activity of the user's friends on the page

Any person has friends and acquaintances who like his photos, repost and comment on his posts. Check if there are such "friend traces" on the user page. But be careful, as a fake can be friends with the same fakes that are active on his page. So it won't be superfluous to check your friends' pages too.

We arrange interrogation with addiction

If the user indicated that he lives with you in the same city, then ask him a couple of questions that any indigenous resident can easily answer. Hang on to any information - place of work, place of study, and so on. Ask as many questions as possible and monitor the person's behavior: does he evade an answer, does he answer in sufficient detail and quickly.

Remember that a fake reacts in a standard way to any request to somehow confirm the authenticity of its page:

I'm not going to prove anything to you! If you don’t want it, don’t believe it!